25-07-2005, 07:55 PM
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Hi there,
I tried to run DOSbox on my MAC. (OSX 10.4.2 Tiger) and just found out that the "special keys" do not work correctly ... CTRL SHIFT / \ Yeah, and of course you can't edit a file like "autoexec.bat" to put the mount-expression to it for beeing able to play at least some games ... Has anyone an idea that could help ? Cheers, swiss |
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26-07-2005, 08:32 AM
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doesn't dosbox come with a readme ?
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26-07-2005, 09:07 AM
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of course it does. but that's the normal readme of the windows version with a small extra-text of the mac-version. but if doesn't give me any hints how to get it work.
looks like i still need to have my pc to play ... :blink: |
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01-08-2005, 01:58 PM
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trying using the apple key instead of ctrl?
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03-08-2005, 12:41 AM
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The weird thing is that Macs never had DOS, so how would DosBox work on a Mac? Since Windows is basicly DOS with images, It must use some of the old source.
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03-08-2005, 06:09 AM
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Nope ... I does not need DOS to run DOSBox ... How would the Linux version work ???
It's a project by Sourceforge and they mostly have every software for every OS. DOSBox is an emulator quite like your C-64 emulator (par ex). To Ioncannon: I tried almost every key and it doesn't work ... I read the readme of this version but I don't find a hint on where the dosbox.conf is situated at MAC ... Searched in Preferences and in the System folders ... :help: |
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03-08-2005, 07:25 AM
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inside dosbox type :
config -writeconf /tmp/dosbox.conf exit dosbox in the readme of dosbox there is some part where dosbox looks for it's default configuration file (I recall something like ~/Preferences/applications/...) copy the file to there and edit it
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03-08-2005, 07:51 AM
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How can I type that in DOSBox when I can't type "/" ???
Well I go and search for the pref-file .... |
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03-08-2005, 09:41 AM
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config -writeconf dosbox.conf is fine as well
look in your current working directory when you exit dosbox
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18-08-2005, 02:05 PM
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I got the mistake. The manual says that there are some problems with non-english keyboard layouts. I just thought that they meant the standard things like "z" is "y" and stuff I experience with my pc-version of dos box.
I got it to run with "CTRL", "/", etc. by switching to English keyboard layout via Mac OS preference panes -> language support. Now it works and I love it ! Thank you all for your hints and tipps! |
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